Conference Session

Analysis of Effectiveness and Impacts of Graduate Programs: Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Wayne Coots, Purdue University; Sarah Knapp, Purdue University; Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University; Dawn Laux, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

assignment required a full documentation of the final project describedabove. Analyzing the design journals from this capstone project should provide an indication ofthe students’ design thinking mindset after the course instruction. A sample of 92 artifacts wascollected from students enrolled in the Design Thinking course during the same Fall 2016semester. The sample size of 92 was chosen to demonstrate the research method and validate itseffectiveness. Sampling of the artifacts yielded a data set with 44 design journals from theintegrated sections and 48 from the non-integrated sections. All artifacts were sampled from thefinal design project and evaluated with the Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric(see Appendix A). This rubric

Conference Session

Professionalism and Preparations Developed by Graduate Study Programs—Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nate Derbinsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Yugu Yang-Keathley, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Graduate Studies

networking and has been teaching at WIT for over fifteen years, including courses in software engineering, databases, archi- tecture, and capstone projects. She has been involved in service-learning projects in urban Boston and has developed CS-outreach-oriented seminar classes in which college juniors and seniors develop and deploy CS curricula to middle school students. She has extensive experience with designing and teaching project based, multidisciplinary courses with collaboration and input from industry partners. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work-In-Progress: Graduate School Preparation within an Undergraduate Program Aaron